AGNIVTSEV, Nikolay

Blistatelnyi Sankt'-Peterburg'. [Brilliant St Petersburg]

Berlin, Izd-vo I.P. Ladyzhnikova, 1923. A very good copy in original decorated covers. A very good copy. Used; Very Good Nikolay Yakovlevich Agnivtsev (1888-1932) was a poet, dramatist and notably a children's author. He attended Petersburg University (but did not graduate). Agnivtsev contributed to "Satirikon" and various other journals. In 1917, he took part in "Bi-Ba-Bo" cabaret and wrote much of its repertoire. In 1921, in Berlin, he published his "St. Petersburg" verse collection. This present work is a new edition entitled "Blistatelnyi Sankt'-Peterburg'." [Brilliant St. Petersburg]. Paperback.

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Book number: 36391

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Satirikon|Literature|Poetry|Russian|Featured

AKHMATOVA, SLONIMSKY, BASNER, FALIK

Romans'i Dlia Golosa I Fortepiano Na Stikhi Ann'i Akhmatovoi. Romances to the Verses of Akhmatova

Leningrad, Sovetskii Kompozitor, 1989. P/b. 100pp. In very good condition, a little rubbed at edges, very very mild damp spotting. Used; Very Good Foolscap in size, paper-bound music with lyrics to verses by Anna Akhmatova. Music by Sergei Slonimsky, Veniamin Basner and Yuri Falik. Paperback.

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Book number: 34309

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Music|Opera|Anna Akhmatova|Russian|Avant-Garde|Featured

AKHMATOVA, Anna (G P Struve, B A Filippova eds.)

Works I. Sochineniya. Tom Pervii.

Munich München, Inter-Language Literary Associates, 1965. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. Neat small label inside. Excellent condition. Used; Very Good Volume one (the second volume of this edition was published separately in hardback in 1968). Reproduction of Annenkov's portrait to frontis.with other b/w plates inside, introduction in English by Gleb Struve, text in Russian. Hardback.

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Book number: 35548

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Akhmatova|Russian|Literature|Avant Garde|Featured

BEK, Aleksandr Alexander

Novoe Naznachenie. Novoye Naznacheniye [a New Appointment]

Frankfurt am Main, Posev Possev Verlag, 1971. A good copy of this rare German first edition in original dust-wrapper, text in Russian, portrait frontis. Small mark to f.e.p. first gathering loose with no loss. Cover photograph from Yugoslav film archive. Publisher's advertisements for Solzhenitsyn works bound in back. Used; Very Good Bek's controversial 1965 novel Novoe naznachenie [A New Appointment] was written as a roman à clef centred around Soviet politician Ivan Tevosian, who under Joseph Stalin's period as head of the Soviet Union had been appointed to play a key role in heading the Soviet metallurgical production. The work was completed and delivered to Novyi mir on 15th October 1964, the day of Krushchev's downfall. Although it was published in Germany in 1971, it appeared in the USSR only in 1986. (The editor) of Znamia in which it was published, saw it as an important stage in the perestroika of the journal, and in his introduction to the first instalment described the novel " as [an] account rendered to the times in which he lived, to his contemporaries, to his conscience and to the future". (Woodhouse, 1991). "One of our best authors" Roy Medvedev. Hardback.

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Book number: 36815

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Emigre|Literature|Russian|Featured|Perestroika|Soviet

BULGAKOV, M.

Diavoliada Povest' O Tom, Kak Bliznetsy Pogubili Deloproizvoditelia [Diaboliad and Other Stories Text in Russian].

London, Flegon Press, 1970. P/b. 88pp. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. Very small chip to spine tail, edges a little rubbed, internally very clean and crisp. Used; Very Good . Paperback.

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Book number: 34385

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Russian|Avant Garde|Featured|Bulgakov

BULGAKOV, Mikhail

Master I Margarita: Roman. [First Book Edition].

Paris Parizh, YMCA-Press, 1967. Original grey wrappers printed in red and black, 219pp. In very good condition, clean and tight. Two light creases to upper cover, small mark above author name, faint sunning to lower cover, fore-edges somewhat darkened, generally very mild signs of use. Important printing of this significant work. Acheve d'imprimer le trente juin 1967 par Joseph Floch maitre-imprimeur a Mayenne no.2850.

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Book number: 38235

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Literature|Featured|Emigré|Avant Garde|Russian|Russian Avant Garde|Emigré Literature

BULGAKOV, M.

Rokovye Jajca [Fatal Eggs Text in Russian].

London, Flegon Press, 1970. P/b. 109pp. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. Edges a little rubbed, internally very clean and crisp. Green 'Foyles' label inside. Used; Very Good . Paperback.

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Book number: 34386

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Russian|Avant Garde|Featured|Bulgakov

BULGAKOV, Mikhail

Sobache Serdtse: [Heart of a Dog]. First Edition.

London, YMCA-Press, 1969. Small 8vo.13.5x18cm. original card covers printed in red and black (design by Yuri Annekov), 159pp. portrait frontis. A good copy. 3 preliminary pages and frontis. starting otherwise tight. Upper cover very good but lower cover stained not affecting inside. A short novel first written in 1925 at the height of the NEP (Lenin's State Capitalism) period but not published officially in the Soviet Union until 1987. One of Bulgakov's most outstanding works. (Oblozhka raboti Yu. P. Annenkova).

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Book number: 38236

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Russian|Literature|Featured|Emigré Literature|Russian Avant Garde

BUNIN, I. A..

Temnye Allei (Dark Avenues Alleys, Shadowed Paths)

Paris Parizh, La Presse Française et Etrangère, Zeluck, 1946. Original paper covers printed in red and black, 324pp. Spine heads chipped, paper peeling a little from spine head, lower corner chipped, usual yellowing of paper. However, clean and tight, one or two unobtrusive pencil marks, occasional pages as yet unopened. A very good copy of this first edition. Cover design by B. T. Ross'r(?). Used; Very Good Paris edition and first full version of 27 stories. Ivan Alekseevich Bunin was the first Russian to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1933). 'Temnye Allei' (stories characterised by dark, erotic liaisons and love affairs) comprising only 11 stories was published in New York in 1943. Translated as 'Dark Avenues and Other Stories' by Richard Hare 1949, and as 'Shadowed Paths', 1958 by Olga Shatse. Paperback.

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Book number: 33786

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Russian|Literature|Avant-Garde|Featured

CHEKHOV, A.. [M Derzhavin, T. Blazhina and V. Koltsov.

Proposal. Predlozhenie [Record]. A Jest in One Act. Shutka V Odnom Deistvin Ispolnyayut Artisty Teatra Imeni Vakhtangova. Nd 909-910(a) 33 1/3 Ob. V Min. "Made in the Ussr 9".

Melodiya?, n.d. Record of The Proposal in Russian on gramophone record. In very good condition in original plastic and decorated card sleeve. Distributed by M.K. (Mezhdurodnaya Kniga) with their imprint to sleeve. Probably manufactured by Melodiya.

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Book number: 37510

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Literature|Record|Featured|Russian|Vinyl

CHUKOVSKAYA, Lydia. Chukovskaia

Spusk Pod Vodu. (Going Under)

New York, Izadatelstvo imeni Chekhova, 1972. Used; Very Good First edition although written in 1949. Translated as 'Going Under' and written in the form of a memoir-like diary. The author's deeply personal writings reflect the human cost of Soviet totalitarianism, and she devoted much of her career to defending dissidents such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov. She was herself the daughter of the celebrated children's writer Korney Chukovsky. Chukovskaya was a close associate and chronicler of the poet Anna Akhmatova. Paperback.

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Book number: 34172

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Literature|Russian|Akhmatova|Featured

Dalton-Brown, Sally

Pushkin's Eugene Onegin Critical Studies in Russian Literature.

Bristol Classical Press, 1997. P/b. vi + 145pp. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. Almost as new except for very slight score on front cover. Unused. Used; Very Good All quotations are translated. Includes a survey of the context of the work and the author's own close commentary, along with full bibliography. Hardback.

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Book number: 35164

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Literature|Literary Criticism|Russian|Pushkin|Featured

DUDINTSEV, V..

Ne Khlebom Edinym. [Not by Bread Alone]. First Emigré Edition.

Munich München , TsOPE Izdatel'stvo Tsentral'nogo Obedineniya Politicheskikh Emigrantov iz SSSR, 1957. Original textured card covers printed in black. 296 pp. Text in Russian. As new, appears unused. Clean, tight and bright. Usual mild browning of paper. ?? ?????? ??????. First emigré edition. First published in instalments in Novy Mir, Dudinstev's landmark novel about an engineer opposed by bureaucrats as he seeks to implement his invention caused a sensation in the USSR. The tale became a literary symbol of the Khrushchev era although official reaction soon turned against the work and Dudintsev suffered years of poverty. In later years, however, accolade returned. In 2005, Mosfilm director Stanislav Govorukhin released the film based on the novel.

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Book number: 37701

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Emigré Literature|Russian|Slavonic|Literature|Featured

DUKELSKY DUKEL'SKII, Benedikt. (Boris Grosser)

Dusha V Zavyetnoi Lire. Stihotvoreniya.

Paris, N.p, 1927. Original wrappers with original protective cellophane to wrappers, V. G. Used; Very Good Cover design by Boris Grosser. Paperback.

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Book number: 35740

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Russian|Books in (Slavonic) [Slavic] Literature

ESENIN. YESENIN. Sergei

Izbrannyy Yesenin Stikhi I Poemy [Selected Verse and Poems]

Riga, Gramatu Draugs, 1928. A good copy, clean and tight. Very minor chipping to spine ends, usual browning to paper. Used; Very Good The poet Sergei Yesenin (Esenin), 'pastoral-angel' 'tavern-rake' and bard of the Soviet Empire lived a short and turbulent life but posthumously became one of the most widely-read of 20th century Russian poets. He was a founder member of the avant-garde "Imaginist" group. Branded both decadent and hooligan, anti-Soviet and Soviet hero, he was vulnerable, sinful and all too human. Tantalisingly, he was married briefly to Isadora Duncan. Esenin is described as essentially 'Russian'; he is the peasant embodying tragic pathos and the forlorn dream of a rural idyll (McVay 1998). He killed himself in a Leningrad Hotel in 1925 after a short-spanned but meteoric literary career. Hélène Heinsdorf's decorated ex-libris, pencilled note below (Could be the Polish journalist Helene Heinsdorf-Lewinson? See Sonderfahndungsliste G.B.). Paperback.

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Book number: 36394

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Russian|Poetry|Avant Garde|Featured|Imaginist|Russian|Literature|Poetry|Featured|Emigre|Ex-Libris